Transferring images to a new instance of Tellico

[Xavier Brochard]

Images are in your personal directory (under /home), in a folder next to the 
Tellico database file. The image's folder name is usually the same name as your 
Tellico database file.

On your old laptop, launch Tellico as usual. 
You may have launched it from the application menu (or screen) or from the 
database file (a file in your personal folder with the Tellico icon on it) in 
your file manager. 
- In the first case (you launched Tellico through the app menu), check the 
settings of your database, there you will see where the Tellico database file 
is located.
- In the last case, you obviously knows where the Tellico database file is 
located.

Now, you should find the database image's folder next to the database file in 
your file manager. 

Have a good day
Xavier

Le jeudi 3 octobre 2024, 18:21:20 CEST Ian McCulloch a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I have just bought a new laptop, and I want to transfer an existing Tellico
> book catalogue to it. I exported the database to xml on my old laptop, then
> imported the xmlfile on my new laptop. This was when I realised that the
> images (book covers) are stored separately, and that they hadn't been
> copied across.
> 
> My question is, where are the images on my old laptop, and can I copy them
> to the same place on my new laptop so that they connect with the book
> records? The Image Storage Options in my original Tellico setup are "Store
> images in common application directory" but poking around in /usr hasn't
> been fruitful. As you may have guessed, I don't know that much about Ubuntu
> and how it works, despite using it for about 15 years. I'm running Tellico
> 3.5.3 on Ubuntu 24.04.1.
> 
> I'm guessing that if I had the settings as "Store images in data file" I
> wouldn't have had this problem, so it would be good to have it set up that
> way on the new laptop. There are about 1,000 book records, so I'm reluctant
> to do anything that means a separe operation for each record.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> Ian

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